Mingchao, a world full of numbers and light and shadow, is cold and ruthless, as mechanical as it is. Here, Zanni is like a character forgotten by the times, carrying her own tasks alone and struggling to survive. Her skills and her equipment are not just numerical values in the game, but more like a metaphor of life – a weapon against reality, and a way to find a little courage to survive in despair. Zanni’s attack is not gorgeous or vigorous. Every ordinary attack and every dodge and counterattack of hers is like a breath in life, a silent cry. Four-stage diffraction attack, cold numbers, but behind them are tired figures one after another, repeating mechanical movements day and night, struggling in the gap of fate. The “Flame Judgment” in her hand is like a heavy sword, which can’t cut the chain of fate, but can cut the short darkness. The basic attack power of 588 seems powerful, but it can’t cover up the deep fatigue. Her critical damage is nearly 50%, and her critical rate is 20%, but she still cannot completely break through the cold wall surrounding her.
“Scorching Flame Form” is her burst in the extreme state, like a fire in the ashes, although short, but dazzling enough. But more often, she is silent, calm, and a machine forced by the system to resist. The “flame light” enhancement after dodging is not just a design of the game mechanism, but more like a moment of occasional respite in reality, which is fleeting.
Zanni’s resonance skill “Sleepless Watch” has an indescribable desolation in the name – sleepless, whether in battle or life, she can’t really rest. Her protection of the teammates around her is her only warm place and her last bastion against the cold world.
Her skill description talks about “redundant kinetic energy”, which sounds like surplus energy, but in reality it is the epitome of the repression and explosion of countless tired souls. Zanni hides emotions and feelings behind the cold numbers, but those emotions are covered by cold numbers and endless battles.
The setting of “resonance liberation” is cruel. She can only explode after bearing great pressure, just like countless people living at the bottom of society. Only when they are oppressed to the extreme will they try their best to break free from the shackles. Her scorching flame form is not only a description of the skill, but also the struggle of human nature under extreme pressure, and the stubborn fire in life.
What is even more distressing is the resonance circuit of “the dark night will dawn”. In Yu Hua’s writing, this sentence is definitely not a simple skill effect, but a metaphor of a little light in the darkness. It means that no matter how dark it is, there is still light. The light noise effect jointly applied by Zanni and her teammates has formed a bond of mutual dependence, and it is also a fragile but real warmth.
“The most urgent thing? Get off work!” This seemingly joking sentence is deeply helpless. The pressure of work and life almost makes people breathless, and the way home becomes far and long. Zanni’s protection “immunity to death” is more like a silent protest against reality: not letting yourself fall is the only persistence in cruel life.
In the world of Mingchao, Zanni is not only a warrior, but also a small person trapped in the system. Each of her resonance chains is full of struggle and helplessness: the increase in critical hit rate, the superposition of multipliers, and the management of energy are very similar to the calculations and struggles of everyone in reality to survive.
Zanni’s vitality is not in the vigorous battles, but in countless repetitive and boring actions, quietly burning in the corners that are not paid attention to. Her story is not a heroic epic, but a microcosm of the lives of countless ordinary people, and it is the loneliness and helplessness of individuals under the huge social machine.
The characters in Yu Hua’s works often reveal the truth in the absurdity and the tenacity of life in the ordinary. Zanni is also such a character. She flows with the pain of the times, but ignites a beam of warm light in the darkness.
The world of Mingchao is cold and ruthless, but Zanni’s light tells us: Even in the darkest moments, people can still choose to be strong, choose to struggle, and choose not to be swallowed by fate.
She may not be the most dazzling hero, but her existence is the most profound answer to life, a resistance to the ruthless reality, and an insistence on the dignity of life.